Re: [Libwpd-devel] Results for wpd2odt with some real-world WPMac files

[Edward M. <em...@co...>]

Fridrich

On 22 Apr 2011, at 5:12 PM, Fridrich Strba wrote:
> 
> On 22/04/11 16:15, Edward Mendelson wrote:
>> However, I also tried the conversion with two real-world files that I was sent by the person who first asked about this. These real-world files are here:
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/Attachments.zip
> 
> They exposed a bug in libwpd that was assuming that the Text Font
> function's "font name" pascal string contains only ascii characters. I
> saw in the file, that if the character code is between 0x20 (space) and
> 0x7f, it is an ascii character, when it is bigger or equal to 0x80, it
> is basically the higher byte of a double byte script. I fixed the font
> name reading to work accordingly. Those documents have some font names
> encoded in CJK characters and the xml that we were producing by
> writerperfect was not a valid xml because the character strings were not
> a valid UTF-8 due to our misunderstanding that I mentioned above.
> 
> It is now enough to pull libwpd again doing:
> 
> 	git pull -r
> 
> inside the libwpd directory and rebuild that one.
> 
> BTW, to the question how to build a static everything, configure all
> (libwpd, libwpg and writerperfect) using --enable-static
> - --disable-shared configure options. You can even change the installation
> location by using --prefix=/path/where/you/want/to/have/them.
> Note, that in that case, you will have to adapt your PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> variable accordingly.

Your instructions worked perfectly. I built a portable wpd2odt that runs on any other OS X 10.6 system. Thank you!
I've written a bash script that updates libwpd and writerperfect with git and then compiles and builds all three components, so I can update this whenever you update

The conversions work extremely well. Thank you!

Question: is it possible to guess which version of LibreOffice will have the new version of libwpd?

Edward Mendelson